1. I've been talking to the Tulane people and apparently at least 8-9 packets of this will be finished by KABO weekend, and they're amenable to letting me use them.

2. It seems likely, although not 100%, that Michigan will have Sunday rooms for KABO weekend.

3. I would like to play some trash.

So what I'm proposing and inquiring is whether people would be interested in playing this on KABO weekend assuming Sunday rooms are available (keeping in mind that it will probably not be a full 10-12 packet tournament). It can be paired with any remaining side events not used on Saturday, and depending on interest, the field size can be tweaked to avoid something like two three teams of twelve people. Obviously I want to play (although I offered to write a freelance packet), so I would need some staffers and buzzers.

Nothing's set in stone yet, but if this sounds good to you, express some interest

FIELD (should be 6-8 teams, probably capping this at 8 unless we can be guaranteed staff)

EDIT: I am semi-knowledgeable in music, have some knowledge in trash lit and maybe film, and not at all in sports (except tennis), video games, or TV. Pick me if you don't care too much about winning things.

I would be very interested in playing this if anyone wanted to pick me up for their team. My strengths are Music > TV > Movies > Sports > Trash Lit (i.e. the longer it takes to consume one unit of the subject, the worse I am at it)

Aaron Dos RemediosFormerly of the Waterloo School of Abstruse Canadian Inside Jokes (University of Waterloo)

I'll be playing this with Paul Hamilton and some other DCC people who want to come. If any non- High School people who know sports want a team, we'd love to have to you, because I hardly know the difference between Soccer and Hockey.

Collin ParksUniversity of Michigan 18'

"Aragorn was the famed king of Gondor, while the Iberian kingdom was Aragon. Both parties were aware of this coincidence: we have a journal entry from Aragorn that expresses his anger at receiving mail meant for King Peter IV of Aragon for the umpteenth time."~ CommodoreCoCo

With the announcement that Sunday events are possible, I will declare this event as on, starting at 10:00 (the earliest possible time the room reservations kick in) in presumably the same place that the main KABO tournament will be (Mason Hall). It will probably either be preceded or followed by my film tournament.

I would say the best field would be like an even yet smallish number of teams: 6-8 would be preferable (some form of round robin and then more games I assume will be the format, this is slapdash trash so just forget about "advantaged final" concerns right now). We will also need a few staffers--hopefully some non trash loving folks will be in the vicinity (and we'll need like 4 tops).

Just to stress again, this is not a full tournament but rather something along the lines of 8-9 packets, which with the later start and the film side event, is probably okay. If anyone wants to write some guerrilla trash packets to pad on to it, I'm certainly down for it. The low number of packets means the field size/format may require some quirks, but we'll handle that I suppose on the fly.

Cheynem wrote:Just to stress again, this is not a full tournament but rather something along the lines of 8-9 packets, which with the later start and the film side event, is probably okay. If anyone wants to write some guerrilla trash packets to pad on to it, I'm certainly down for it. The low number of packets means the field size/format may require some quirks, but we'll handle that I suppose on the fly.

I wrote a set of 50 (15 movie/ 15 music/ 10 video game/ 5 TV/ 5 other) 8-10 line power-marked questions that not a lot of people have heard if you're interested.

Cheynem wrote:Just to stress again, this is not a full tournament but rather something along the lines of 8-9 packets, which with the later start and the film side event, is probably okay. If anyone wants to write some guerrilla trash packets to pad on to it, I'm certainly down for it. The low number of packets means the field size/format may require some quirks, but we'll handle that I suppose on the fly.

I wrote a set of 50 (15 movie/ 15 music/ 10 video game/ 5 TV/ 5 other) 8-10 line power-marked questions that not a lot of people have heard if you're interested.

I'm definitely up for that.

Shan Kothari

Plymouth High School '10Michigan State University '14University of Minnesota '19 (hopefully!)

Cheynem wrote:Just to stress again, this is not a full tournament but rather something along the lines of 8-9 packets, which with the later start and the film side event, is probably okay. If anyone wants to write some guerrilla trash packets to pad on to it, I'm certainly down for it. The low number of packets means the field size/format may require some quirks, but we'll handle that I suppose on the fly.

I wrote a set of 50 (15 movie/ 15 music/ 10 video game/ 5 TV/ 5 other) 8-10 line power-marked questions that not a lot of people have heard if you're interested.

If you're going to be there Saturday, you can form a team for this then. If you're not going to be there Saturday, it would be nice to lock down a team if you haven't already done so; that way, we'll know to expect you.

Just bumped to copy Kurtis' information about time/meeting places from the KABO main thread because I assume it will be the same for Sunday:

"A few details about the tournament:

This is happening on the second floor of Mason Hall. I'm designating room 2437 as the control room for now, though if that room is really small or something we might be in an adjacent room. Parking is available in the Maynard Parking Structure, among many other locations. Registration will start at 9 with games hopefully starting at around 9:30 (if we can't get into the rooms until 10, then we'll wait a half hour, but I'd like to try and get started a little earlier than 10 if possible). There are plenty of nearby options for lunch and I'm sure there are enough people familiar with the area to point you in the right direction."

I just got home from KABO early to get to my brother's going away party and after seeing what he and my other brother have planned, don't be surprised if I'm not there on time or even at all tomorrow. Just a heads up.

We declared my team the winner, then played an exhibition game between 1-2, 3-4, and 5-6 on packet six--all I know is that Drew's team beat my team on the last question in a game in which almost everything was powered after one line.